make greater connections between brains of people
...is one of the first things we are using portable computers for...mobile phones are rapidly evolving, and are likely to be one of the first pieces of hardware integrated on a commercial basis.
As far as specialization goes... specialization of all individuals is an evolutionary dead end. Humans are generalists, and even now multiple specialists in different fields have difficulty communicating.
Of course, if we were to make logic based instead of emotion based decisions, things might run more smoothly. At the moment we still are often tied up as a society because of various emotional reactions to proposals.
In the real world, specialists do not communicate better between themselves, in fact the reverse happens--the more specialized you are, the harder it becomes to communicate with specialists outside your field.
